No Pain In Pop

Irate Radio

Heads down, hoods up - low-bit transmitters throb through Union walls to tear down Next City; razed by vollies of gilded treble and low-slung dubshots. Jah Pat’s first No Pain In Pop mix plays like a year’s best of, featuring the choicest of deep, doomsday slabs from Quest and Silkie, as well as the hi-tech clatter of Martyn’s ‘Suburbia’ and Zomby’s apt pair ‘Euphoria’ and ‘Strange Fruits’. Full track list after the jump.



MP3: Jah Pat - NPIP01

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Tags: ikonika, jah pat, joker, martyn, mix, quest, silkie, vex'd

Bounty Hunter

Photo: Josh Sisk

Beserkers in a beat harem, Teengirl Fantasy throw themselves upon silver platters of clubland styles, kraut-ish synth tangents and broken house vocals to regurgitate the lot in a brilliant, bursting mess made with acid all their own. Or at least that’s the way things usually play out - ‘Now That’s What I Call Volume 2′ is one of the earliest tracks that Oberlin College, Ohio-based duo Nick and Logan put together and where you might expect a maddened rush through the sonic possibilities presented by the new partnership, it’s one that smoulders slow, a sole insistent loop taking time to catch at everything around it.

Build it does though, as snares that’ve borrowed rasp from dubstep’s dark motley mark busy time, kicking through splashes of synth that evaporate in mid-air like serotonin clouds hanging over downtown heads. A determined groove previewed at 23:30 on Teengirl’s awesome dublab mix, this final edit of ‘NTWICV2′ precedes the release of fresh 7″ ‘Portofino’ b/w ‘New Image Every Day’ on Merok later this month. Jam it in yr earwholes.



MP3: Teengirl Fantasy - Now That’s What I Call Volume 2

Tags: dublab, teengirl fantasy